Antoinette Putnam Metcalf, mid- to late-19th century. Newberry Library

Antoinette Putnam Metcalf

1829-1875

Teacher, wife & mother of 12

About the creator

Homemaker and wife of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, who was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on January 29, 1822. His father, Isaac Metcalf, had married Lucy Heywood in 1810; she died childless in 1820. In March 1821 he married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, the widow of Charles Rich, by whom she had had three children (named Charles, Elizabeth Anna, and Almeida). Isaac was born to Metcalf and Rich, followed by Joseph, Lucy, and Eliab. Isaac Metcalf (father) died in Boston in 1830...

About the collection

Correspondence, writings, diaries, and journals documenting family and rural life, as well as early business correspondence and records, and a few photographs, all pertaining to Isaac Stevens Metcalf and the Metcalf, Furber, and Putnam families. Family correspondence was used to keep all of the branches of the family in touch with each other when family members moved away. There are many instances where multiple family members wrote on one letter to one or more other family members...

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a page of handwritten text

Antoinette Putnam Metcalf commonplace book, 1886-1898